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- Titi Livi ab urbe condita libri editionem priman, Pars I-IV, Libri I-XL. Editio Stereotypica. Weissenborn, Wilhelm; Mueller, Moritz, editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1884-1911.
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The new consuls Scipio and Glabrio enter office and perform sacred rites to seek divine favor for the war against Antiochus. The proposal for war is passed by the people, and the senate assigns the provinces and allocates the military forces.
P. Cornelium Cn. filium Scipionem et M’. Acilium Glabrionem consules inito magistratu patres, priusquam de provinciis agerent, res divinas facere maioribus hostiis iusserunt1 in omnibus fanis, in quibus lectisternium maiorem partem anni fieri solet, precarique, quod senatus de novo bello in animo haberet, ut ea res senatui populoque Romano bene atque feliciter eveniret.2
Upon entering office, the consuls Publius Cornelius Scipio, son of Gnaeus, and Manius Acilius Glabrio, were ordered by the senators, before they discussed the provinces, to perform sacred rites with major victims in all the shrines in which a lectisternium was accustomed to be held for the greater part of the year, and to pray that what the senate had in mind regarding the new war might turn out well and prosperously for the senate and the Roman people.
ea omnia sacrificia laeta fuerunt, primisque hostiis perlitatum est,3 et ita haruspices responderunt, eo bello terminos populi Romani propagari, victoriam ac triumphum ostendi.
All those sacrifices were favorable, and the first victims offered full atonement; and the haruspices responded thus: that by this war the boundaries of the Roman people would be extended, and victory and triumph were portended.
haec cum renuntiata essent, solutis religione animis patres rogationem ad populum ferri iusserunt, vellent iuberentne4 cum Antiocho rege, quique eius sectam secuti essent, bellum iniri; si ea perlata rogatio esset, tum, si ita videretur consulibus, rem integram ad senatum referrent. P. Cornelius eam rogationem pertulit; tum senatus decrevit, ut consules Italiam et Graeciam provincias sortirentur; cui Graecia evenisset, ut praeter eum numerum militum, quem L. Quinctius consul in eam provinciam ex auctoritate senatus scripsisset imperassetve, ut eum exercitum acciperet,5 quem M. Baebius praetor anno priore ex senatus consulto in Macedoniam traiecisset;
When these things had been reported, their minds being freed from religious scruples, the senators ordered a proposal to be brought before the people, whether they wished and ordered war to be entered into with King Antiochus and those who had followed his party; if that proposal should be passed, then, if it so seemed good to the consuls, they should refer the matter afresh to the senate. Publius Cornelius carried this proposal through; then the senate decreed that the consuls should cast lots for the provinces of Italy and Greece; and that he to whom Greece should fall, in addition to that number of soldiers which the consul Lucius Quinctius had enlisted or demanded for that province on the authority of the senate, should receive that army which the praetor Marcus Baebius had transported into Macedonia in the previous year by decree of the senate;
et extra Italiam permissum, ut, si res postulasset, auxilia ab sociis ne supra quinque milium numerum acciperet. L. Quinctium superioris anni consulem legari ad id bellum placuit.
and outside Italy, permission was given that, if the situation demanded, he might accept auxiliary troops from the allies, not exceeding the number of five thousand. It was resolved that Lucius Quinctius, the consul of the preceding year, should be sent as a lieutenant for that war.
alter consul, cui Italia provincia evenisset, cum Bois iussus bellum gerere utro exercitu mallet ex duobus, quos superiores consules habuissent, alterum ut mitteret6 Romam, eaeque urbanae legiones essent paratae quo senatus censuisset.
The other consul, to whom the province of Italy had fallen, was ordered to wage war with the Boii with whichever of the two armies he preferred of those which the previous consuls had held, and to send the other to Rome, and that these should be prepared as city legions for wherever the senate should decree.
- 36.1.1P. Cornelium Cn. filium Scipionem et M’. Acilium Glabrionem consules inito magistratu patres ... iusserunt
The accusative noun phrase P. Cornelium... consules serves as the subject of the infinitive clause (res divinas facere... precarique) governed by iusserunt in §36.1.2. The phrase inito magistratu is an ablative absolute meaning 'upon entering office'.
- 36.1.2quod senatus de novo bello in animo haberet, ut ea res senatui populoque Romano bene atque feliciter eveniret
The quod-clause (senatus... haberet) is a relative clause anticipating the object of the prayer. The subjunctive haberet is due to indirect discourse (what the senate had in mind). The ut-clause functions as a noun clause dependent on precari, expressing the content of the prayer.
- 36.1.3perlitatum est
An impersonal passive of the intransitive verb perlitare (to obtain favorable omens or offer acceptable sacrifice). It means 'full atonement was made with the first victims'.
- 36.1.5vellent iuberentne
An indirect question in the imperfect subjunctive, representing the traditional voting formula of the comitia: 'velitis iubeatisne' (whether you wish and order), subordinated here to the past main verb iusserunt.
- 36.1.6cui Graecia evenisset, ut... ut eum exercitum acciperet
Following the ut-clause governed by decrevit (ut consules... sortirentur), another ut-clause is introduced with cui Graecia evenisset as its virtual subject. The word ut is redundantly repeated here (anacoluthon or pleonastic repetition).
- 36.1.9alter consul... ut mitteret
The nominative alter consul is the subject of the participle iussus (ordered). While iubeo normally takes an accusative with infinitive, it is here followed by ut mitteret... essentque paratae, as if in an indirect command, influenced by the preceding decreeing verbs.